Andreas and Stefan lead a happy and passionate life: Together with their beloved tomcat Moses, they live in a beautiful old house in Vienna's vineyards. They work as a musician and as a scheduler in the same orchestra and they love their large circle of friends. An unexpected and inexplicable outburst of violence suddenly shakes up the relationship and calls everything into question - the blind spot that resides in all of us.
Acting
Hochmair and Turtur navigate silence and eruption with devastating precision.
Direction
Händl lets scenes breathe until you forget you're watching fiction.
Director
Klaus Händl
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the few Austrian films to center gay marriage without making queerness the conflict — the violence is universal, the domesticity specifically queer.
The cat Moses was played by multiple cats; the infamous scene required careful choreography that upset audiences more than most human violence. Händl wanted viewers to confront their own hierarchies of empathy.
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